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Sunday, April 2, 2023

Smelling funny

 Something smells a bit funny here. This is from the same journal that published one of the bad articles on Leonard Cohen that I saw recently, the International Review of Psychiatry, published by Taylor and Francis.  I just doesn't seem legit to me, because of the quality of writing and thought feels like something created by a perverse parodist. One of the authors appears to be a someone with a certain level of scholarly achievement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_T._P._Wong), but cannot write at a basic undergraduate level: 

"Love is the core of human experience and central to our meaning in life and wellbeing, yet it is also a complex concept full of ambiguity and contradiction. The main purpose of this paper is fourfold: Firstly, we want to clarify questions such as ‘What is the meaning of love?’ and ‘Why is meaning of love so important to us?’ Secondly, we want to explain why love is both suffering and essential for our happiness and mental health. Thirdly, we identify the major types of love and clarify which types are constructive and which are destructive. We also identify the key dimensions of true love. Finally, we emphasise that love does not always mean happiness; rather, it is meant to be a school to teach us important lessons and to make us complete. Therefore, we need to embrace suffering and at the same time cultivate the constructive types of love to improve our mental health and to make the world a more compassionate place."

3 comments:

Leslie B. said...

Taylor & Francis? How odd.

Check this out, what do you think of it? https://twitter.com/MushtaqBilalPhD/status/1642404540413620224

Thomas Basbøll said...

The imprimatur of an academic publisher is basically meaningless today.

Leslie B. said...

It sure seems so!